IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg). Via Wikipedia.
Scorpius
The Scorpion
OriginAncient
AbbreviationSco
GenitiveScorpii
Pronunciation/ˈskɔːrpiəs/ genitive /ˈskɔːrpiaɪ/
SCOR-pee-us
LocationSouthern Hemisphere
Primary StarAntares (α Scorpii)
Right Ascention 16h 29m Declination -26° 26'
Martian Solar Lag δ(🜨→♂) +0.474h (28.4m)
Scorpius is the scorpion sent by Hera to kill Orion, the hunter who boasted that there was no beast that could kill him. The scorpion was crushed by Orion, but not before delivering a fatal sting. Hera placed the scorpion in the night sky as the constellation Scorpius.
www.underthesky.com
Scorpius as depicted by Johannes Hevelius in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia (1687). Source image provided by www.RareMaps.com — Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. Via www.underthenightsky.com.
←October 2832→
SunMonTueWedThurFriSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31
1 October 2832 2 October 2832 3 October 2832 4 October 2832 5 October 2832 6 October 2832 7 October 2832 8 October 2832 9 October 2832 10 October 2832 11 October 2832 12 October 2832 13 October 2832 14 October 2832 15 October 2832 16 October 2832 17 October 2832 18 October 2832 19 October 2832 20 October 2832 21 October 2832 22 October 2832 23 October 2832 24 October 2832 25 October 2832 26 October 2832 27 October 2832 28 October 2832 29 October 2832 30 October 2832 31 October 2832 1 November 2832 26 Vulpecula 649 27 Vulpecula 649 28 Vulpecula 649 1 Cygnus 649 2 Cygnus 649 3 Cygnus 649 4 Cygnus 649 5 Cygnus 649 6 Cygnus 649 7 Cygnus 649 8 Cygnus 649 9 Cygnus 649 10 Cygnus 649 11 Cygnus 649 12 Cygnus 649 13 Cygnus 649 14 Cygnus 649 15 Cygnus 649 16 Cygnus 649 17 Cygnus 649 18 Cygnus 649 19 Cygnus 649 20 Cygnus 649 21 Cygnus 649 22 Cygnus 649 23 Cygnus 649 24 Cygnus 649 25 Cygnus 649 26 Cygnus 649 27 Cygnus 649 28 Cygnus 649
MD 294733 MD 294734 MD 294735 MD 294736 MD 294737 MD 294738 MD 294739 MD 294740 MD 294741 MD 294742 MD 294743 MD 294744 MD 294745 MD 294746 MD 294747 MD 294748 MD 294749 MD 294750 MD 294751 MD 294752 MD 294753 MD 294754 MD 294755 MD 294756 MD 294757 MD 294758 MD 294759 MD 294760 MD 294761 MD 294762 MD 294763 MD 294764 MS 286776 MS 286777 MS 286778 MS 286779 MS 286780 MS 286781 MS 286782 MS 286783 MS 286784 MS 286785 MS 286786 MS 286787 MS 286788 MS 286789 MS 286790 MS 286791 MS 286792 MS 286793 MS 286794 MS 286795 MS 286796 MS 286797 MS 286798 MS 286799 MS 286800 MS 286801 MS 286802 MS 286803 MS 286804 MS 286805 MS 286806